Max MSP London meet up
On Thursday 24th of May 2012, the Music Hackspace is hosting its first Max MSP meet up at 7pm. Max MSP is a music programming environment that allows to bring together sensors, samples, synthesis engines and video. It is used by sound artists throughout the world, but also by visual artists and in installations. Max [...]
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Max MSP London meet up
On Thursday 24th of May 2012, the Music Hackspace is hosting its first Max MSP meet up at 7pm. Max MSP is a music programming environment that allows to bring together sensors, samples, synthesis engines and video. It is used by sound artists throughout the world, but also by visual artists and in installations. Max [...]
Audiovisual synthesisers: Tasos Stamou
Thursday 17th of May 2012, 7pm. Tasos Stamou will present his work on audiovisual synthesisers. Tasos Stamou, an electroacoustic composer, free improviser and instrument maker will present some of his latest designs. The devices -100% recycled in materials and sounds- combine circuit bent toy-instruments with analogue modular synthesizer utilities and audiovisual synchronizations. The text below [...]
Howling Monkey: Curating in the Music Space
Thursday 3rd of May 2012, 7pm. Ben Bleet will present the activities of Howling Monkey: creating and curating in the music space. Ben will discuss the innovation opportunities in the areas of digital, live and experience of the Music Industry.
SOLARIS: visual vinyls
Thursday 26th of April 2012. The SOLARIS project uses painted discs to create music and is led by French artist Thierry Guibert. Thierry crafts beautiful graphics on vinyls. These vinyls are used on a special set of turntables, where the diamond stylus is replaced by a camera to capture images as the disc spins mechanically. [...]
Introduction to SuperCollider
SuperCollider is an interpreted music environment developed by James McCartney in 1996. It was open-sourced in 2002 when McCartney joined Apple. Since then, SuperCollider has been adopted by a growing community of musicians-developers. In April 2012, Queen Mary University joined forces with Goldsmiths and City Universities to organise a London symposium. The event featured artistic [...]
Recycled Tunes: making hits out of Rubbish
On Thursday 22nd of March, Martin Malii-Karlsson will present ”Recycled Tunes: making hits out of Rubbish” To promote sustainability and recycling to young people using music and social media. We want to build a sound/lyrics/visual bank/radio of recycled material open for people to share and mash up. Plus pull in data from ex twitter about peoples [...]
PatchWerk Radio: Generative Internet Radio
On Thursday the 15th of March, Guy John will talk and answer questions about PatchWerk Radio. PatchWerk Radio is a generative music internet radio station that streams constantly changing audio twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. It is built with Pure Data at its heart and wrapped in Python to help make [...]
din is noise: a Free software musical instrument
On Thursday 1st of March, Jagannathan will present din is noise: a Free software musical instrument. From Jag’s website: “If Puredata and Supercollider are two synths, din is a synth of a 3rd kind. It forgets history, To not repeat it. It doesnt hide analog music hardware, In digital music software.”
Augmented Piano: Andrew McPherson
Andrew McPherson (Queen Mary, University of London) will present his work extending and enhancing the piano keyboard. The presentation will include a live demo of a multi-touch capacitive sensor system to detect the location of fingers on the key surfaces. The system can be installed on any acoustic or electronic keyboard, giving the player multiple [...]
Traditional analogue synthesis systems (Tom Webster and Peter Foreman)
The evening (9/02/2012, 7pm) will be a retrospective look at ‘traditional’ analogue synthesis systems, with some demonstrations and comparison between a pre-configured vintage hardware analogue synthesizer (probably a Roland SH101) and a modular analogue synthesizer (Blacet Research kit). Why the vintage synth is arranged as it is, and how you would emulate this arrangement with [...]
Bioni Samp: Hive Synthesiser
Bioni Samp demonstrates his Hive Synthesiser on 16/02/2012, 7pm. Talks about its making, modular 6 oscillator design and its use in creating his experimental electronic music. ***Numerology of bees and beehive habitat patterns, hive logs and cycles are used as circuit starting points to make Music For Bees*** Followed by a short performance. Bioni Samp is an [...]
Ariel Elkin: AriVibes, a musical augmenter for iOS
AriVibes is an iOS app designed to enable users to musically transform the sounds of physical objects. In other words, it is a portable, self-contained augmented reality system that allows a user to shape and control the perceived timbre of objects, to enable a wide range of users to use any object as a musical [...]
90MIN SONGWRITING CHALLENGE 19/01/2012
Tonight we had our second songwriting challenge. Two teams of music hackers who’ve never worked together before. 90 mins to write a song…. Here’s what happened! Team 1: Ariel, Bushra, Jean-Baptist > Lullaby Songwriting 19 Jan 2012 by Music Hackspace Team 2: Andrew, Paul, Ziad> hsjamery.mp3 <–download Hsjamery – 90MIN SONGWRITING CHALLENGE 19/1/2012 team 2 by musichackspace
Enrico Bertelli and David Ibbett: percussion live electronics
Enrico and David are classically trained composers. Enrico has been inspired by Xenakis and performs regularly compositions by Steve Reich. David studied composition at Cambridge and together they composed musical performances using electronic drum kits, MaxMSP, Ableton Live and an iPad. We recorded three videos during their presentations. In the first video, Enrico plays a [...]
Xmas Present Show and Tell
Music hackers were invited to share and enjoy their Christmas presents and projects with the group. Here are a selection: Guy’s Tenori-on Guy demoed his new Tenori-on. Ten minuts later the group were mesmerised in a bleepy blinky trance. See the video for guys intro to the fantastic Tenori-on: Phil’s Wave Flavours Phil showed off [...]